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- Categories:Misc, Book
- books Sight of Proteus, Proteus Unbound, Proteus in the Underworld
Description
In the future they use feedback machines to change themselves into
other forms. The main character works for the Office of Form
control and is the foremost expert in his field. They can change
other creatures as well so they developed a test that would tell
them if the form started out as human or something else. The Office
of Form Control enforces these rules and administers the test. The
first book has him chasing down a scientist performing illegal
transformations and he has to track him down across the solar
system. This is pretty much a setup to the sequel. They are more
lenient towards experimental forms in the second and third books.
There is tension brewing between the inner system planets and the
outer system. So when mysterious forms start to appear seemingly
out of nowhere, they snag the main character and transport him to
the outer system to investigate. This leads him to some strange
code in the systems that causes not only strange forms but in some
cases death. Then when a scientist successfully carries out the
transformation he becomes an alien that used to live on the planet
that was between Mars and Jupiter. For what reason? You may have
already guessed, but read the book to find out for sure.
Some TG, some strange combined forms, age regression(not to young
but they can pick an age to regress to, if I recall, to keep
themselves at a certain age) other TFs and the previously mentioned
alien TF.
The first two books are hard to find, they were recently bound into
one colume though called Prometheus Combined with a really cool
'morph'cover. The third one is newer and can still be found. Sadly
Charles Sheffield passed away two years ago and there will be no
more sequels.
originally posted by Indiana Jones on 2004-12-08, no edits, entryid=2156
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